Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about status of new mortality table developments in the pension arena, impact of new mortality tables on annuity valuations, and the effect of new mortality tables on defined-benefit plan minimum funding and pension expensing.

Description: Presented at June 2002 Spring Meeting. This session discusses how credibility varies by size of groups for various health coverages, when a block of business can be considered fully credible, how credibility can factor into a rate filling, and to what extent current experience can be considered more credible than past experience.

Description: 2004 SOA Annual Meeting and Exhibit, New York. This session covered the results of new experience studies for individual disability, group disability and group life, the implications of the results, and the future direction of the studies.

Description: Panelists discuss the data being collected by The Group Long-Term Disability Experience Committee of the Society of Actuaries in connection with its intercompany morbidity study on recent LTD experience. Topics include valuation vs experience tables and measureing & monitoriing claims experience. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2, Session 28

Description: This session discussion is health databases, outcomes research, treatment protocol development, ambulatory utilization, SOA Experience Committee activities, and responding to employer demands for data. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1B.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. Discusses the latest developments in underwriting and their potential impact on mortality, and the most recent mortality statistics.

Description: This session discussion is about the role of data analysis in decision making, HIAA surveys, National Center for Health Statistics [surveys on Ambulatory Medical Care, Hospital Discharge and Nursing Homes], and SOA experience data collection efforts. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 1.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This panel discussed the latest trends in mortality including: 1. The new 1994 Group Annuity Mortality and1994 Uninsured Pension tables. 2. Should future improvements be built into the table? If so, how?

Description: Panel discussion on recent developments in individual disability insurance, including morbidity trends, reserving assumptions and variations, marketing and underwriting trends and trends in claims practices. Presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in New York.

Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Explores work to study the mortality experience of the older ages, the mortality costs to the insurer if the absolute level and shape of the pricing mortality curve is incorrect and the value of underwriting with regard to select vs. ultimate mortality.